MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Corals, ongoing since 2005 (Reformatted to the ecocomDP Design Pattern)

• Main Authors: Moorea Coral Reef LTER, Peter Edmunds
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2021
• Subjects: Demographics; Long-term Time Series; LTER; MCR; Moorea Coral Reef; Scleractinian Coral; California State University Northridge; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; NSF; Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station; University of California Santa Barbara; French Polynesia; Moorea; Scleractinia; Carbonate rocks; Coral Reefs; Corals; Lagoons; Marine environments; Polyps (organisms); Populations; Shallow water; communities; coral reefs; corals; habitats; marine; Time Series Program; Ocean Acidification; Reef Resistance and Resilience; Population and Community Dynamics; community composition; community dynamics; community patterns; species composition; species diversity; species richness; ecocomDP; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation; Porites Porites irregularis; Porites Porites rus; Porites Porites spp. Massive; Porites irregularis; Porites rus; Porites spp. Massive; Pacific; Rus’; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/277/3

This data package is formatted as an ecocomDP (Ecological Community Data Pattern). For more information on ecocomDP see https://github.com/EDIorg/ecocomDP. This Level 1 data package was derived from the Level 0 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-mcr/4/38. The abstract below was extracted from the Level 0 data package and is included for context: This dataset contains the percentage cover of the stony corals (Scleractinia) and other major groups analyzed from 0.5 x 0.5 m photographic quadrats in several reef habitats at the Moorea Coral Reef LTER, French Polynesia. This survey has been repeated annually in April since 2005. There are two tables available, providing different views of the same data: a long table having all values in one column and a wide table having a separate column for each dependent variable. Functional groups (i.e., dependent variables) counted are: Scleractinian Corals (by genus where appropriate, see methods), Macroalgae, Crustose Coralline Algae / Bare Space, Soft Corals, Hydrocorals (Millepora), Algal Turf and Sand. The coral community was sampled photographically in all habitats surrounding the island: Fringing Reef, Lagoon (Backreef), and Outer Reef (Forereef.) The sampling regime consists of a repeated-measures protocol in each habitat, and is structured by habitat to allow a statistical contrast of sites, shores, times, and in the case of the outer reef, depths. Detailed methods are available in the protocols section. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCE 16-37396 (and earlier awards) as well as a generous gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Research was completed under permits issued by the French Polynesian Government (Délégation à la Recherche) and the Haut-commissariat de la République en Polynésie Francaise (DTRT) (Protocole d'Accueil 2005-2020). This work represents a contribution of the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER Site.